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ESPO Is A ‘Studio Gangster’

When he’s not making signs in Coney Island, marching in the Deitch Art Parade, or writing his name on the wall, Stephen Powers aka ESPO is writing books. In his first mildly successful book, “The Art of Getting Over,” he documented graffiti and now the Philly-native turned New Yorker has got another art book in the pipeline, Steve Powers Is A Studio Gangster:

Powers records 5 years of paintings that distill the complete range of human emotion into readily recalled and related memes. These visual archetypes are aptly described by Powers as a synthesis of word and image to create a new emotional revelation . This book is published on the occasion of his Fall 2007 exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

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